Look into the encoding algorithms for polylines. Depending on how you want to do it, you could probably adjust them to fit a fix (or approximate) number of points, or maybe the regular algorithms will work just fine for your purposes.
On May 31, 11:25 am, Nicolas J <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > I'm wondering if it's possible to reduce the number of points in a > polyline but to chosse the exact or an approximate number of points I > want to. > > Example: > reducePolyline(existingPolylineWith1000Points, 500) > > This function return me a new polyline with only 500 points of the > original. > > Of course, it's easy to remove points of an existing polyline, but > some points are less important that other, so of course, it's better > to remove the less important point first. > > Thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
